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Americans say money can buy happiness. Here's their price tag.
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It can’t buy you happiness. But it can buy stuff that makes you happy.
Like, not having to worry about the choice between rent and fiod, or car loan and electrical bill. (Not to mention all the other stuff that’s pretty fun, too.)
I don't know if paying my electricity bill counts as buying something that makes me happy..
ever been without electricity? Some homes, no power means no heat, no cooking, no internet. it's just a shell that's nominally warmer than the outside. Stressing about simply surviving is going to pretty much make anybody unhappy. so not having to worry about paying those bills... perhaps it's best to say, buying relief from unhappiness?
Yeah. Relief from unhappiness is a much better way to put it. Happy is not the same as not-sad.
Finding happiness in life usually goes beyond "having the bare minimum of my basic needs met".
When you have repeatedly had to choose between having power or water for a given month, not having to do that makes you very happy.
I think the removal of a negative stimulus is a different kind of emotion than the addition of a positive stimulus.
I get where y'all are coming from. I really do.
I still think it's a misrepresentation of what "Money doesn't buy happiness" means.
And yes, studies do show that money does buy (read: positively correlate with) happiness. Not just what this study seems to be reporting by asking people what they want, but by actually examining for correlations. It does seem to max out at a number far lower than a lot of politicians and C-suite execs are making though.
I'm not saying "Money doesn't buy happiness". I'm just saying that "Buying things that make you happy" is different from "Meeting basic human needs in the modern world".
I don't think you're arguing against the concept or anything. I'd thought maybe you hadn't seen what people meant.
I can for sure understand your perspective.
Gotcha. Have a good day!
Aww, niceness on the internet!
Makes you happier than not being able to pay it.
Not-sad is different from happiness
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